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Researcher · GNS Science · New Zealand

Dougal Townsend

Dougal Townsend publishes mostly in Geophysics, Atmospheric Science and Civil and Structural Engineering, on topics such as Geology and Paleoclimatology Research, Geological and Geochemical Analysis and earthquake and tectonic studies.

ORCID 0000-0003-3938-4542 OpenAlex
World rank
#812,336
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in New Zealand
#3,199
of 21,128
Works
68
Citations
1.7k
Citations per work
24.9
h-index
24
i10-index 31Top 16% in Geophysics
Dougal Townsend

What does Dougal Townsend research?

Dougal Townsend's work is mostly in Earth and Planetary Sciences (64%), Engineering (7%), Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (4%).

Physical Sciences: 54 works · 79.8% of their workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 43 works · 63.9% of their workGeophysics: 27 works · 39.9% of their workAtmospheric Science: 16 works · 24.0% of their workEngineering: 5 works · 7.1% of their workCivil and Structural Engineering: 5 works · 7.1% of their workComputer Science: 3 works · 4.4% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 3 works · 4.4% of their workEnvironmental Science: 3 works · 4.4% of their workManagement, Monitoring, Policy and Law: 3 works · 4.4% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 15.8% of their workLife Sciences: 3 works · 4.4% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 3 works · 4.4% of their workMolecular Biology: 3 works · 4.4% of their workTHEIR WORKDougal Townsend68works
Life Sciences4%Physical Sciences80%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Earth and Planetary Sciences4363.9%
    2. Engineering57.1%
    3. Computer Science34.4%
    4. Environmental Science34.4%
  2. Everything else1115.8%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.4%
  1. 1Geophysics40% of their works
  2. 2Atmospheric Science24% of their works
  3. 3Civil and Structural Engineering7% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology4% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence4% of their works
  6. 6Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Dougal Townsend's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Climate Change, Plate Tectonics, Glacial Cycles, Paleoclimatology, Geochronology, Zircon, Earthquakes and Subduction.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Climate Change412 topics
  2. Plate Tectonics352 topics
  3. Glacial Cycles301 topic
  4. Paleoclimatology301 topic
  5. Geochronology261 topic
  6. Zircon261 topic
  7. Earthquakes251 topic
  8. Subduction251 topic
  9. Remote Sensing192 topics
  10. Tomography182 topics
  11. Glacier111 topic
  12. Water Availability111 topic
  13. Crystal Structure Prediction91 topic
  14. Mantle Dynamics91 topic
  15. Seismic Noise91 topic
  16. Surface Wave91 topic
  17. Geomagnetic Field81 topic
  18. Hazard81 topic
  19. Landslide81 topic
  20. Magnetosome Formation81 topic

Where does Dougal Townsend work?

Dougal Townsend's main affiliation in the publication record is GNS Science, New Zealand.

How many publications and citations does Dougal Townsend have?

OpenAlex counts 68 works and 1,693 citations for Dougal Townsend, an h-index of 24, ranking #812,336 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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